"Dear Yarn" Letter

Dear blue skein,

Since I first took you out of the box, dear yarn, you have charmed me with your ways: your generous 560 yards, your soft sheen, the way you happily soaked up dye, whether you were being handpainted or immersed.

But now — this is so hard to say — I fear we've come to a parting of the ways, dear yarn. You are keeping me awake at night, whispering in my ear of the socks I could make with you — or maybe a shawl? or a hat and scarf? your possibilities have me bewildered.

You are coming between me and my next red scarf, and the pattern that's begun to percolate in the back of my brain; you are distracting me from the Dulaan mittens I had in mind, before you began entangling me in your merino strands, dear, dear yarn.

Much as I love you, it's time for me to give you up. I am donating you as a Knit Unto Others prize, so that you and an as yet unknown knitter can find true happiness together.


I bid you fond farewell, my true-blue yarn.